First fish caught in the 250 Sportsman.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by jasoncooperpcola

We took our 250 Sportsman out for the second time today. It was running 45 mph at 3/4 throttle according to our gps. I dont have any kind of fuel consuption numbers. I caught the first fish which was a 21 inch Red Snapper.
We caught our limit of 6 in no time once we found a good reef. Once we caught the last one the gulf turned snotty and we headed in. I'll post pics later.

Congrats on the catch, down here we don't find many ARS in state waters. And them's some good numbers for speed too for a big boat. I'm currently waiting on some resin to set-up from fiberglassin earlier.

[jasoncooperpcola]

Here are a few pictures:

Almost one years worth of work.


Twin 1986 Yamaha 150's


My new (to me) 96 GMC 2500 6.5 Diesel


First fish in the boat


All of today's catch

[jasoncooperpcola]

[willy]

Jason that is sweet, love them boats, how does it handle in a slop ?

[jasoncooperpcola]

Thanks Willy. It handled nicely coming in. We was running about 23 mph and every now and then had to duck some overspray. It didn't hit as hard as our V-20 which really suprised me. I can't get over how nothing moves on the Durabak deck. On the V-20 everything moved backward when we were going. On the 250 Sportsman stuff stays put.

[tsubaki]

Nice, we got to run about 40 miles before getting into any congregations of snapper around here.
That speed is something, never thought about a boat that size going that fast.

[Blue_Runner]

I guess ya'll already heard about the gal that went fishing with 10 guys right?

Yep, she came back with a BIG RED SNAPPER!

Pretty work Jason! Nice snappas!